Production Planner

Prince Personnel Limited; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Production Planner for a manufacturing site in Telford. You will ensure resources are optimized and manage production schedules. The ideal candidate has experience in the manufacturing sector and is competent in MS Excel. This role offers a salary of up to £30k per annum and enhanced annual leave among other benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Development pathways

Great working environment

Qualifications

• Experience as Production Planner, Manufacturing Planner, or similar role.
• Competency in using MS Excel is required.
• Experience with MRP/ERP software is preferable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Check and create schedules to meet demand.
• Monitor production progress and amend schedules.
• Work closely with production teams and participate in meetings.
• Manage SKU lifecycles effectively.
• Collaborate with purchasing team to address supplier performance issues.

Skills

Experience in manufacturing sector

Competent in MS Excel

Familiarity with MRP/ERP software

Job description

Overview

Location: Telford

Salary: Up to circa £30k per annum

Benefits: Enhanced annual leave

Hours: 37.5 hours Monday - Friday (onsite)

This organisation has a second-to-none reputation within the market, and with an ever-growing national presence, they have evolved with passion and quality consistently remaining at its heart and purpose.

As their Production Planner, you will be part of a busy, yet efficient team that ensures all resources across this flagship manufacturing site are optimised, ensuring materials and resources are where they need to be, precisely when they need to be there.

You'll have a brilliant department leader who knows the company and its processes inside and out – allowing them to provide the best guidance and support to complement your existing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Checking and creating schedules and making sure capacity can meet demand and forecasts are reflective of any changes in demand
• Monitoring production progress, and amending the schedules if needed
• Working very closely with the production teams and contributing to production meetings
• SKU Lifecycles - making sure they are managed (think new products in, old products out)
• Supplier performance through working with the purchasing team and communicating any issues regarding supplier delivery, performance or quality

What you will get in return

• This company knows and acknowledges that their success is driven by their employee's commitment to the cause, so they really value and reward their employees with a great working environment, development pathways and an opportunity to be part of something really great - which is demonstrated through many of their employees' boasting decades of service.
• Salary of up to £30k per annum (depending on experience)
• 24 days annual leave + stats
• Other enhanced benefits and perks schemes

Experience you will need

• You will already have experience within the manufacturing sector, ideally having held roles such as Production Planner / Manufacturing Planner / Production Controller / Production Scheduler / Materials Controller / Supply Planner type roles
• As you will have some base experience in planning, you will be competent in using MS Excel and ideally have worked with MRP/ERP software (but this isn’t a deal-breaker)

The application process

Our mission is to support our clients in their creation of an equal, diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable accessibility adjustments within the application process, then please make it known at the earliest opportunity.

We will carefully consider your details and advise you if we're able to progress with your application within 72 working hours. If you do not hear from us within this time your details won't be retained. So, if you're not successful on this occasion, do continue to respond to future roles we advertise. In the meantime, all good wishes and continued success with your search for employment.

About Us

Prince Personnel are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Whether you're seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract you'll find us easy to deal with. Located in thriving Telford, we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire and North Wales. Prince Personnel specialise in commercial, accounts and finance and technical recruitment. With the best jobs around we are an independent agency working hard for you.

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